Pankhursts Arrested.
THE SUFFRAGETTE WAR. 1 POLICE ROUND THE PALACE. fßr Electric Telegraph—Copy right. [United Press Association.] (Received 10 a.m.) London, May 21. The neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace is like a camp. The police surround the building two deep with a ring of bayonets behind. Another thousand police are in readiness. RAID ENDS IN FIASCO. FORTY-TWO WOMEN AND THREE MEN ARRESTED. (Received 10.41 a.m.) London, May 21. 11l the presence of many thousand persons the suffragettes’ raid on Buckingham Palace was a fiasco. A little band of women, headed by Mrs Pankhurst, Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, and Mrs Take, emerged from the crowd and rushed towards the police cordon. At the top of Constitution Hill. Mrs Pankhurst was seized and placed in a taxi cab, shouting; “That’s right, arrested at the gates of the palace. Toll the King.”
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst was removed to Holloway Gaol. There was much hand-to-hand fighting, and several of the police were injured. A woman threw white and green coloring matter over the police.
Forty-two women and three men were arrested.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 5
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